Lacus, huius lacus vel laci, masculini generis, secundæ & quartæ declinationis. A poole, lake, or deepe place alway full of water, which is deriued into brookes.Accliuis lacus.Ouid. Alto lacu se condidit fluuius. Virg.Clausi lacus speluncis.Virg.Cœnosus lacus. Colum. A musdie poole.Compluuius lacus. Vide COMPLVVIVS. Gelidus lacus.Virg. Segnes. Stat. Limosus. Virg.Torpentes lacus.Stat.Standing pooles.Limpidi lacus. Catull. Tranquilli lacus. Stat.Profundi.Stat. Viui lacus. Virg.Patuli lacus.Ouid. Motare lacus. Ouid. Lacus. Colu. The vessell that receiueth the wine, when it is pressed.Cauus lacus.Ouid.Gnstare delacu mustum Plin iuo.To taste new wine in the vatte. Lacus vinarij. Col. Lacus in ædificijs. Luci. The printipall beame going ouerthwart the house: also a planke. Lacubus distinguÛtur granaria vt separatim quæque legumina ponantur. Colum. Granards haue certaine distince separations: it may be taken for that whyche in building we call a space frum one beame to an other.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
lăcus, ūs (gen. laci, Vulg. Dan. 6, 17; 24; id. Jer. 37, 15; Cassiod. Var. 11, 14; dat. and abl. plur. lacis, Anthol. Lat. 5, 71, 10: lacibus, Plin. 23, 1, 20, 33; usually lacubus, Ov. M. 12, 278 al.), m. [root lak, to tear; Gr. la/kos, lakero/s, la/kkos; Lat. lacer, lacinia, lacuna, lāma; cf. lacerna; originally any thing hollow, hence]. I. A large vessel for liquids, a basin, tank, tub; esp. a vat into which the wine flowed from the press, Cato, R. R. 25; 67, 2; Col. 12, 18, 3: tu quoque devotos, Bacche, relinque lacus, Tib. 2, 3, 64: de lacubus proxima musta tuis, Ov. F. 4, 888; a tank of water, in which heated metal was cooled: alii stridentia tingunt Aera lacu, Verg. G. 4, 173: gelido ceu quondam lamina candens tincta lacu, stridit, Ov. M. 9, 170: ferrum, igne rubens ... lacubus demittit, id. ib. 12, 278.—Hence, B.Transf.: oratio quasi de musto ac lacu fervida, i. e.
still new, that has not done fermenting
, Cic. Brut. 83, 288.—II. A large body of water which rises and falls (opp. stagnum, a standing pool), a lake, pond: agri, aedificia, lacus, stagna, Cic. Agr. 3, 2, 7: exhalant lacus nebulam, Lucr. 5, 463: deae, quae illos Hennenses lacus lucosque incolitis, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 72, 188; cf. 2, 4, 48, 107: Averni, Lucr. 6, 746; Cic. Tusc. 1, 16, 37: Albanus, id. Div. 1, 44, 100: Fucinus, Plin. 36, 15, 24, 124: dicebar sicco vilior esse lacu, Prop. 2, 14 (3, 6), 12: ad spurcos lacus, Juv. 6, 603.—Poet., of a river: deinde lacu fluvius se condidit alto Ima petens, Verg. A. 8, 66; cf. v. 74; of the Styx, id. ib. 6, 134; 238; 393.—III.A large reservoir for water, a basin, tank, cistern (of which there were a great number in Rome), Front. 3; 78; Liv. 39, 44; Plin. 36, 15, 24, 121: a furno redeuntes lacuque, Hor. S. 1, 4, 37.—A place called Lacus: garruli et malevoli supra Lacum, at the pond (perh. Lacus Curtius or Lacus Juturnae), Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 16.—Prov.: siccus lacus, for something useless, Prop. 2, 11, 11 (3, 6, 12).—IV.a.A hole in which lime is slacked, a lime-hole, Vitr. 7, 2, 2.—b.One of the bins or receptacles for pulse in a granary: sed et lacubus distinguuntur granaria, ut separatim quaeque legumina ponantur, Col. 1, 6, 14.—c.A den or cave for lions: labitur in lacum leonum, Prud. Cath. 4, 65; Vulg. Dan. 6, 7.—d.The pit, the place of the dead (cf. II. fin. supra): salvasti me a descendentibus in lacum, Vulg. Psa. 29, 4.—V. For lacunar, a panel in a ceiling (ante-class.): resultant aedesque lacusque, Lucil. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 1, 726.
